ww2 vocab

Question 1

Neutrality Act of 1935

Answer 1

Making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to belligerent nations

Question 2

Neutrality Act of 1937

Answer 2

US ships were also forbidden from bringing war materials to warring nations. US citizens were restricted from travelling on the ships of warring nations.

Question 3

National Security Act 1947

Answer 3

Response to the threats from the Soviet union after WW2. Established the Department of Defense and the CIA

Question 4

Cash and Carry

Answer 4

If a country at war wanted to purchase non militaristic goods from the US, they had to pick them up in their own ships and pay with cash.

Question 5

Lend Lease Act

Answer 5

The legislation gave FDR the power to sell, transfer, exchange, and lend equipment to any country to help it defend itself against the axis powers

Question 6

Atlantic Charter

Answer 6

Join declaration by FDR and Churchill, broad statement of US and British war aims

Question 7

Office of Price Administration

Answer 7

Agency in charge of stabilizing prices, preventing speculation, profiteering, and price administration

Question 8

Office of War Information

Answer 8

Regulated war propaganda seen in mass media

Question 9

Manhattan project

Answer 9

A research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during WW2

Question 10

Double V for African Americans

Answer 10

Two victories for them at home and a victory in war

Question 11

Korematsu VS US 1944

Answer 11

The US supreme court in a divided decision upheld Korematsu’s conviction in late 1944

Question 12

Iron Curtain

Answer 12

The imaginary line dividing Europe between Soviet influence and Western influence, and symbolizes efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself

Question 13

Satellite Nations/Soviet Block

Answer 13

Eastern European countries that came under the Soviet control after WW2

Question 14

Containment

Answer 14

A US foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, US tries to stop the spread of communism

Question 15

George Kennan - Long Telegram

Answer 15

It gave rise to the policy of containment—keeping communism within its present territory through the use of diplomatic, economic, and military actions.

Question 16

Truman Doctrine

Answer 16

Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

Question 17

Marshall Plan

Answer 17

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe

Question 18

Berlin blockade

Answer 18

Stalin cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany.

Question 19

Berlin airlift

Answer 19

The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied air bases in western Germany.

Question 20

NATO

Answer 20

Created to provide security against Soviets. The first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.

Question 21

Warsaw Pact MAD- mutual assured destruction

Answer 21

The idea was to make nuclear warfare a lose-lose proposition — a game you just can’t win

Question 22

Sputnik

Answer 22

earth’s first artificial satellite

Question 23

Employment act of 1946

Answer 23

mandated the contradictory policy goals of seeking both full employment and low inflation.

Question 24

22nd Amendment 1951

Answer 24

limiting to two the number of terms a president of the United States may serve

Question 25

Taft-Hartley Act

Answer 25

Condemned by Labor leaders as a “slave labor law”. It outlawed the “closed” shop, made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves, and required union leaders to take a non-communist oath.

Question 26

Fair Deal

Answer 26

a set of proposals put forth by President Truman as a legislative agenda for Congress to continue Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies.

Question 27

Berlin Wall

Answer 27

a fortified wall made up of concrete and barbed wire made to prevent East Germans escaping to West Berlin

Question 28

McCarthyism

Answer 28

A brand of vitriolic, fear-mongering anti-communism associated with the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Question 29

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 29

an incident where Soviet missiles were placed in Cuba as a response for help.

Question 30

Alger Hiss

Answer 30

A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy, he could not be tried for espionage because of the statute of limitations.